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https://www.themaorigreenlantern.maori.nz/winston-peters-empires-pacific-deputy-and-the-selective-conscience-of-a-man-who-counts-dummy-warheads-but-not-dead-childrenthe-blood-washed-badge-updated-with-source-analysis-8-july-202 'Jonathan Milne’s analysis published on RNZ on 8 July 2026, “China risks exploding Pacific goodwill in one fell swoop of a nuclear-capable missile,” is the best mainstream analysis of this event published so far. It is worth reading. And it is worth reading very carefully — because buried inside its reasonable, measured prose are five admissions that destroy the dominant narrative Peters is selling. ..... 'Here is the sentence ... that Peters hopes you will read quickly and forget: ' “To be clear, China is not alone in such missile testing. The US routinely carries out test launches of ballistic missiles ..., including one fired from California at a target in the Marshall Islands in March.” 'Read that again. The United States fired a ballistic missile at the Marshall Islands — the same islands it already irradiated with 67 nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958 — in March 2026. Three months ago. Peters issued no press release. Peters expressed no “deep concern.” Peters did not invoke the Treaty of Rarotonga. 'Milne notes that “the Marshall Islands are not (yet) part of the Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone” — technically true, and precisely why the US chose that location — but this defence collapses under scrutiny, because the Marshall Islands are the most nuclear-contaminated islands in the Pacific and their exclusion from the Treaty zone is a consequence of American nuclear occupation, ... and Milne’s own article notes their Treaty ratification is pending, meaning they will soon join the zone the US continues to use as a shooting range. 'Peters had no “deep concern” for the March 2026 US missile test. Not one word. 'He had a full press conference and a Treaty invocation ready within 24 hours for China’s test. 'This is not foreign policy. It is performance calibrated to the preferences of the Five Eyes. Milne’s article, to his credit, documents the double standard. Peters’ press conference, to his shame, embodies it.'